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WALL CONSOLE IN BRONZE DEPICTING A WINGED DEMON

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WALL CONSOLE IN BRONZE DEPICTING A WINGED DEMON

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Brown-patinated bronze, 19th century, Grand Tour production.

This decorative console represents a bearded, horned demon, sculpted in high relief and integrated into an architectural structure. The figure, with a powerful bare torso, projects forward in a dramatic posture. His left arm, bent behind his head, supports a metal cauldron, while his right arm rests on the molded cornice that forms the top of the console.

His face, framed by thick locks and a full beard, is topped with two short, curved horns, accentuating his infernal nature. The membranous wings, widely spread, extend on either side of the body and reinforce the tension of the composition. A tight drapery surrounds his hips and falls in nervous folds. The lower part of the support, fluted and elongated, ends in a stylized shell.

The tormented expression, the vigor of the modeling, and the combination of demonic attributes (horns, bat wings, cauldron) recall the infernal imagery inherited from the Renaissance and the Baroque. However, the execution and patina place this work within the historicist production of the 19th century, conceived for the Grand Tour market. It illustrates the Romantic taste for fantastic and diabolical figures, destined to adorn scholarly interiors and to recall, through their theatricality, the evocative power of ancient and Baroque art.

PERIOD: 19th century
DIMENSIONS: 35 cm x 7 cm
SIZE: 13.8" x 1.2"

The Grand Tour referred, from the 17th to the 19th century, to the long initiatory journey undertaken by young European aristocrats and bourgeois through Italy, Greece and sometimes the Orient.
Its purpose was to complete their education by offering direct contact with Antiquity, the Renaissance, and the great works of art. Rome, Florence, Naples and Pompeii were among the essential stops. Travelers brought back scholarly souvenirs: prints, marbles, mosaics and especially bronzes reproducing famous masterpieces. These objects, produced by specialized workshops, fueled a flourishing market; they decorated libraries, salons, and also cabinets of curiosities, where they were displayed alongside natural specimens and exotic marvels as signs of culture and social distinction.
The Grand Tour durably shaped the European taste for ancient and neoclassical art.

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